An analysis of the strategic motives of the imperialistic britain in africa during the 19th century

Image Gallery. For the French nationalists the concessions were too much, while for their German counterparts they were much too little.

Social effects of colonialism in africa

Indonesia[ edit ] Colonial government official J. Imperialism is more often than not fueled by two major schools of thought known as nationalism and Social Darwinism. After the conquest of African decentralized and centralized states, the European powers set about establishing colonial state systems. Nothing great that has ever been done by Englishmen was done so unintentionally or accidentally as the conquest of India". Germany, U. Consequently, the companies involved in tropical African commerce were relatively small, apart from Cecil Rhodes 's De Beers Mining Company. The British, on the other hand, wanted to link their possessions in Southern Africa modern South Africa, Botswana , Zimbabwe , Lesotho , Swaziland , and Zambia , with their territories in East Africa modern Kenya , and these two areas with the Nile basin. By , only Ethiopia and Liberia remained independent of European control. There was usually a governor or governor-general in the colonial capital who governed along with an appointed executive council and a legislative council of appointed and selected local and foreign members.

In relative terms, in the two decades before one can talk about a British decline and a German rise in export economies. However, all open colonial disputes were settled with the treaty. The German admirals were aware of the fact that a full victory in a naval battle would be impossible, but as an Anglo-German war would be too risky for Britain, she would be forced to maintain good relations with Germany and to grant colonial compensations.

This was aided by a power vacuum formed by the collapse of the Mughal Empire in India and the death of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and increased British forces in India because of colonial conflicts with France. But is this the same as globalisation? It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution.

Over time, imperialism has drastically changed in its magnitude and severity. In truth, the strategic and economic objectives of the colonial powers, such as protecting old markets and exploiting new ones, were far more important.

British africa

At the Berlin Conference in , seven European nations took slices of Africa for themselves without discussing any details with Africans. Nearly all the Great Powers with the exception of Austria-Hungary and Russia and even one smaller European country Belgium , were interested in acquiring territories in Africa. In some cases this was purely cynical colonial propaganda, but this concept also served as a powerful ideological framework to proclaim not only European technical and military superiority, but also cultural superiority. The vast interior between Egypt and the gold and diamond-rich southern Africa had strategic value in securing the flow of overseas trade. He made some local laws and policies, however. Leopold II personally owned the colony from and used it as a source of ivory and rubber. Governments acted within the frame of the nation state or empire and often tried to further national expansion. By the end of the Second Moroccan Crisis most of the colonial disputes between Berlin and Paris had also disappeared.